Improvement in buckles



UNITED STATES PATENT OEEIcE.

MOSES G. SWIFT, OF NEW BEDFORD, MASSACHUSETTS.

IMPROVEMENT IN BUCKLES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 157,943, dated December22, 1874; application filed April 13, 1674.

.To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, MosEs O. SWIFT, of New Bedford, in the county ofBristol and State of Massachusetts, have in vented certain new anduseful Improvements in Buckles, of whichthe following is aspecification:

This invention has for its object to furnish a buckle for garments,harness, &c., which can be secured in position without sewing or separate fastening devices and to this end it consists in extending thetongues of the buckle in a rearward and downward direction from thefulcrum-pin, so as to form a loop or eye which is designed to receivethe fabric or strap to which the buckle is applied, the tongue of thebuckle being either separately secured to the fulcrum-pin by solderingor otherwise; or said pin, together with the tongues, may be made of onepiece of wire, which is bent into the proper shape for the objectspecified.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a perspectim view of a buckleconstructed according to myinvention. Fig.2 is a modification of thesame, representing the tongues formed in one piece with the fulcrum-pin.

The buckle-frame is composed of the transverse. bar A and the side armsB, in the rear extremities of which are formed eyes or openings a, forthe reception of the end gudgeons or journals of the fulcrum-pin G. Saidpin C carries the tongue D, (but in certain instances only one tonguemay be employed,) which tongues may be formed separately from thefulcrum-pin, and be attached to the same by soldering, or by passing theend of the tongue through an opening in the fulcrum-pin,and thenriveting the projecting portion or the tongue may be turn ed around thefulcrum-pin to secure it in place. The rear ends of the tongues of thebuckle are extended in a rearward direction from the fulcrum-pin, andthen in an upward and forward direction, so as to form the loops or eyesE, for the object herein stated. The front portion of the tongue iscurved, so that the draft or strain of the strap or article of garmentthrough which the tongues are passed will tend to draw the latterdownward, in order to cause the same to bear constantly upon thecross-bar of the buckleframe, for rendering the disengagement of thetongues impossible.

The buckle is secured to a garment or barness-strap, or to any object towhich it is applied, by passing the pointed ends of the tongues throughthe strap or fabric, and then drawing the same rearward until the end ofthe strap rests in the loops E, formed by bending the tongues in themanner shown and described.

Instead of making the tongues separate from the fulcrum-pin, both may beformed of one piece of wire or metal, as shown in Fig. 2, thefulcrum-pin being, in this instance, bent downward and in an upwarddirection, so as to pass through the eyes of the buckle-frame, and thenthe tongues and loops are formed by extending the wire in a rearward,upward, and forward direction, for the object specified in thedescription of the other form of buckle heretofore described.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim is- A buckle having thetongues D D extending in a rearward and downward direction to form theloops E E below and behind the pin or crossbar 0, in the manner and forthe ob ject specified.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing I have hereunto set my hand this4th day of April, 1874.

MOSES O. SWIFT. Witnesses:

SOUTHWARD POTTER, 2d, PHILIP H. SHEPHERD.

